It may seem strange to require the US Hab contract to keep BA going, but as I understood it, he was tired of paying for it all, and the commercialization contract(s) weren’t enough.

That layoff in Jan was most of the softgoods group, the core competency of the company. They were not significantly involved in the NextSTEPS Phase 3 contract (a short term thing) prep work.

David Birchler: Bingo! I had forgotten that Bigelow had thrown his eggs into the Gateway basket. With Gateway essentially dumped, he has nothing, unless he can get his own independent space station built.

The article did not mention the other layoffs in January, about 24 people if I remember correctly, separate from the ~20 people last week.

Right before this latest layoff, they told everyone the work week was being limited to 3 days, effectively making everyone part time, then, instead, the final layoff happened on the following Monday.

Though the issue was left open, there was no timetable for a resumption of operations. It’s safe to assume it will not be back without a complete reboot.